ST. PAUL, Minn. — By the time most Twin Cities residents were waking up on Jan. 6, armed federal immigration agents in bulletproof vests had surrounded a man in a St. Paul neighborhood, detaining him as cameras rolled. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared alongside the agents, offering a highly visible marker of the Trump ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the years before Rob and Michele Reiner were killed, Los Angeles police made at least two visits to their home in Brentwood.

On Feb. 25, 2019, officers conducted a welfare check after someone called 911 at 9:51 p.m. According to LAPD records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, officers arrived at the address at 10:12 p.m., ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Wolfe County woman was indicted by a grand jury Tuesday for first-degree fetal homicide after taking abortion medication without a doctor’s advisement.

Melinda Spencer, 35, of Campton, was indicted Jan. 6 on charges of fetal homicide, concealing the birth of an infant, abuse of a corpse and tampering with physical ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani has ordered city corrections officials to come up with a plan to bring NYC jails into compliance with a law that banned solitary confinement on Rikers Island that had sparked strong pushback from his predecessor.

As Mayor Eric Adams did during his term, Mamdani Monday extended Rikers’ emergency status, ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing more than 2 million additional documents related to investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, and dozens of South Florida lawyers have been called in to help, Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed in a letter to a New York judge Monday.

The Justice Department has posted about 12,000 documents in response to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday sought to keep his House Republican troops in line even as he expressed concerns about November’s midterm elections and issued a warning to American weapons manufacturers.

“We got to close the deal,” Trump said of an election that will decide control of the House and Senate as he urged his ...Read more

DENVER — Children’s Hospital Colorado and Denver Health have suspended gender-affirming hormonal treatments for minors again, though transgender youth can still get care in Colorado from providers that don’t rely on federal funds.

Mardi Moore, CEO of Rocky Mountain Equality, said youth can still seek care from other providers, though ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Jaime Moore admitted Tuesday that the department's after-action report on the Palisades fire was watered down to shield top brass from scrutiny.

The admission comes more than two weeks after The Times found that the report was edited to downplay the failures of city and LAFD leadership in ...Read more

DETROIT — A man was arrested Tuesday after trying to get into a Romulus school and firing a gun near the building, authorities said.

Romulus police said they received a report of an active shooter at Romulus Middle School at 9:53 a.m. The suspect had attempted to enter the building through its main entrance, police said, and there was a ...Read more

MIAMI — The Coral Gables man operating the boat that ran over and killed a 15-year-old girl wakeboarding behind a yacht in Biscayne Bay, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor careless boating charges Monday in Miami-Dade County court.

Carlos Guillermo “Bill” Alonso, 79, will serve six months probation and take a boater safety course in an ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Environmentalists are suing the federal government over what they say is a failure to protect the horseshoe crab, a prehistoric looking species that is important to the survival of shore birds in South Carolina and other coastal states.

The Center for Biological Diversity says the National Marine Fisheries Service has not met...Read more

When the Trump administration signaled its willingness to work with Delcy Rodríguez as the face of a Venezuelan transition, the calculation appeared coldly pragmatic.

Rodríguez, a seasoned survivor of the regime’s internal purges, seemed to offer Washington what it urgently needed after the capture of Nicolás Maduro: continuity without ...Read more

The debate over what Florida students learn about fetal development is back on the docket for another round of potentially heated debate.

State Sen. Erin Grall, a Vero Beach Republican, has resurrected the idea of requiring middle and high school students to watch videos showing the growth of an embryo from conception to birth as part of their ...Read more

DENVER — Placing a sticker over President Donald Trump’s face on a 2026 National Parks pass could invalidate it, according to updated rules from the U.S. Department of the Interior.

The note on “Void if Altered” rules says that stickers, coverings, or other alterations could make the pass useless. The internal email detailing the ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday said the Florida attorney general’s office is “looking very seriously” at bringing state charges against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

The case would likely be related to immigration and drug trafficking, the governor said, speaking in Clearwater after a press conference ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — In a surprise shake-up of his senior staff, Minneapolis police Chief Brian O’Hara has replaced two sitting deputy chiefs and ordered a department restructuring that consolidates several specialized investigative outfits under one umbrella.

A newly created Major Crimes Division will now house the Homicide Unit, the nonfatal ...Read more

NEW YORK — To defend himself against sexual harassment and retaliation accusations, former City Hall adviser Tim Pearson has racked up a taxpayer-funded legal bill with a private firm that now tops $620,000, prompting calls for Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration to review whether that arrangement is appropriate.

Pearson, a confidant to ...Read more